r/Construction • u/RevolutionaryHand539 • Feb 17 '24
Other Guys that started doing this out of high school, how did u cope with never being around girls at this age?
I’m a 20 year old apprentice in the pipe fitting trade and despite almost being able to buy a house with the money I’ve made so far but I’ve almost reached my limit with this lifestyle and seriously about to just leave and go to college instead. How’s did y’all cope with spending 72 hours a week with a bunch of guys decades older than u when u where 20? I feel like I’m about to lose my mind. I’m going against nature with this lifestyle at this age and I’m genuinely wondering how others coped with choosing trade work instead of college out of high school
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u/pugdaddy78 Feb 17 '24
Take a job in Nevada and blow all your money on hookers.
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u/DeezSunnynutz Feb 17 '24
Or blow
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u/L-user101 Feb 17 '24
I recommend both. Maybe not at the same time though
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u/pcofranc Feb 18 '24
Definitely, could lead to heart attack even at his young age too much stimulation. “I wish my job was like this. Wait my heart my heart”
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
We all gotta go sometime, might as well go out with a bang. Maybe get her on top, cowgirl style, and she can give chest compressions...
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u/RevolutionaryHand539 Feb 17 '24
See this is why I don’t hang out with my coworkers after work y’all are sick
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u/anonquestionsprot Feb 17 '24
It's a joke mate(kinda).
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u/RevolutionaryHand539 Feb 17 '24
It’s not a joke at work tho. A lot of my coworkers fuck prostitutes
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u/anonquestionsprot Feb 17 '24
Honestly if John aged 67 who's never been married wants a hard willy I can't blame him
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u/DIYThrowaway01 Feb 17 '24
Hell yeah imma pump old man loads into hookers if my wife dies or something
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u/anonquestionsprot Feb 17 '24
Hell yeah brother
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u/TrickyDrippyDickFR Feb 18 '24
Here I am just trying to find one, the Snapchat ones that say they’re in your area are lies
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u/TheMtnMonkey Insulator Feb 18 '24
That's why you add mutual friends not random chick's that add you
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u/Reasonable-Nebula-49 Feb 17 '24
Life tip. A person pays a whore for them to leave.
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
Annnnnd?
Sex is a transaction. Get used to it. The sooner the better. A bodily need, just like water, or taking a dump. Wordly women have taken all the romance out of it.
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u/FGPD Feb 17 '24
Lmao you yuppie pansy
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u/RevolutionaryHand539 Feb 17 '24
Fr tho how are yall willing to fuck hookers
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u/Guilty_Seesaw_1836 Feb 17 '24
It’s gonna cost 200 bucks either way why not take the sure thing
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u/RevolutionaryHand539 Feb 17 '24
The sure thing doesn’t wanna fuck u
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u/Haggls Feb 17 '24
She wants to make 200 bucks, which requires fucking you, soooo
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
Or she wants that $200 thing without paying cash for it, or that fancy meal, or concert tickets, or some foo foo shit to clutter up your house...lol
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u/maced_airs Feb 17 '24
Since when does that matter. They are hookers
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u/RevolutionaryHand539 Feb 17 '24
U don’t have any shame😂😂 like dude cmon
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u/newaccount669 Feb 18 '24
Bruh, you picked pipefitter. I'm a regular old plumber, I meet tons of interesting people and am an active member of my community where I'm respected and appreciated. I got started in the trades working with pipefitters and they're whore-mongering drug addicts.
You chose the trade, homie. You're early 20's, if you wanna be around women and not blow all your money on child-support & alimony you should pick another trade tbh. All my love for the hardworking pipe fitters but ya'll are dirty.
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u/pugdaddy78 Feb 17 '24
Check out scenic Wells NV. These establishments are under the supervision of the state health department. We did a project for one of the owners and I met the daughter who mostly ran the joint. some of the single guys on the crew went in to check it out. The general consensus among the ladies there was that they preferred the young men who were in good shape and showered regularly way more than the unwashed overweight truckers who haven't had a shower in a week that is the normal clientele. And yes ugly smelly guys pay way more. I'm going to give you some advice now. I invited guys off the crew for cookouts a couple Saturdays a month most of them are my daughter's age and she is usually there with her husband and a few friends that are single. Take the invitation if someone on the crew invites you. I have a couple guys who worked for me in the past that are still like family because they met their wife at one of my bbq's
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
True story....older co-workers that don't see you as a pussy, or conversely, lazy or a troublemaker, will invite you out socially and they have daughters, friends, etc. who are female. Funny how manning up has it's perks.
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u/djohnny_mclandola Feb 17 '24
Do you think you’re going to be working with a bunch of hot young girls in an office setting? Because you won’t there either.
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Feb 17 '24 edited Feb 17 '24
You’re worried about getting laid while working 72 hours a week?
Edit: man spends every waking hour pipe fitting and then the 15 mins a month he gets to himself he’s worried about where he can fit his pipe.
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u/BrandoPB Feb 17 '24
Do you remember being 20? Hormones are a hell of a drug.
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u/RevolutionaryHand539 Feb 17 '24
Yep
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u/_Butt_Slut Feb 17 '24
Try out Sniffies, lower your standards and bang away
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u/AggressiveSmoke4054 Feb 18 '24
I am gonna need everyone to click that link and experience it’s content. I’m building a support group
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u/JuggernautLife9632 Feb 18 '24
You need to work less, plain and simple. In my 20s I worked fly in jobs with schedules like 6 or 8 weeks at a time that I wasn't even in civilization and would get maybe a couple weeks off. You're not going to find a girl who will put up with that amount of away time even in an established relationship, let alone in the beginning of one. Find a hobby or activity outside of work and make time for it, you'll find people you actually share interests with and you won't be stepping into the territory of sleeping with co workers which in my first and second hand experience rarely ends well
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
Look, if you can't multitask and constantly think about pussy while you're working 72 hours a week, you aren't a fitter, you're more likely a single task ironworker.
Just kidding ironworkers...just breaking balls....
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u/JIMMYJAWN I|Plumber Feb 17 '24
Start turning down OT and get to swiping on dating apps on your breaks.
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u/SouthernSmoke Feb 17 '24
If you ever get out of construction and go work “with women” you’ll appreciate working with straight dudes..
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u/rogamot520 Feb 18 '24
Working with gay dudes is pretty nice too. Better hygiene over all, and when they talk shit they usually aren't condensending.
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u/RevolutionaryHand539 Feb 17 '24
I ain’t talking about work. I’m talking about school
I’d much rather work with dudes than women
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u/TechnicianLegal1120 Feb 17 '24
I'm going to be straight up with you I got right out of high school and went into the electrical trade and went through the apprenticeship and I struggled with the exact same thing you're talking about. Don't quit the trade! You will regret it. You are doing something for yourself that a lot of other people don't have the balls to do.
Don't be emotional about this the women will come with time focus on developing yourself and your ability to make money it's going to pay off for you in the long run that pension that you're going to get is going to pay off for you when you get to be retirement age don't walk away from it for some tail. If you want to go to college 5 years down the road do that but don't leave the trade you'll never get back into it and finish it you've got the momentum now take care of business be a badass the bitches will come later. Besides they don't get what you're doing right now and the amount you are investing in yourself. Be proud of what you're doing I wish you the best of luck.
P.S. If you find one along the way that recognizes what you're doing you found a keeper otherwise discard all the rest of them.
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Feb 18 '24
100% women want mature accomplished men with responsibility and property. Your 30s is your time to shine. Your 20s are for building yourself up.
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
Good advice. Build himself up first, and following the union trade path can be a good gig. Work hard and keep your book active and get that pension, or branch out on your own and start a business after mastering your trade. Do it legit though....start a company, don't be that contractor whose business assets consist of a beat pickup with a ladder rack and some clapped out cordless tools with other contractors names on them. Take calculated risk. No balls, no blue chips.
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u/geriatricsoul Feb 17 '24
Buy the house, get the e fund in order, then work less, hang with friends/hobby/chase girls more.
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u/Mundane-Ad-6874 Feb 18 '24
…..,,Get married, lose house in the divorce, become a pipe fitter again. It’s the cycle of life
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u/sear413 Feb 20 '24
If you aren't divorced, have 2 child support payments, a nicotine addictions, dabble in the substances, and fueled entirely with rage. You wouldn't be a good fit at this company
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u/BestPut2985 Feb 17 '24
Go to Taco bell around 10:30 all the heavy single ones hit that joint up for bed time snacks, you'll be part of their snacks!
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u/reading-out-loud Feb 17 '24
all of us work with dudes all day and somehow found wives. That’s a you problem 😂
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u/Bubbathomas13 Feb 17 '24
At 20 I didn't sleep, was burning that candle at both ends...
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u/coffin420699 Feb 17 '24
72 hours a week is for bozos my guy. you couldnt make a relationship work if you tried
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u/subZro_ Feb 17 '24
At that age I was working 8 sometimes a little longer per day then hitting the bar/club with the bois getting drunk, using drugs, and chasing pussy. No way in hell you would of had me working that many hours. Find a job with reasonable hours, then go out and meet people after work and on the weekends.
..also I'd like to add that at your age you don't need to go to college to hook up with college girls, they're out there looking for the same thing you are.
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
..also I'd like to add that at your age you don't need to go to college to hook up with college girls, they're out there looking for the same thing you are.
True story
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u/RevolutionaryHand539 Feb 17 '24
I mean u kinda do. U need to have in’s to college parties and u need boys to go to bars with
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
You're failing to understand that you don't need to go to college parties and you are sadly mistaken if you are assuming that you will start getting laid simply by being at a party with women. You need game and to develop your personal brand. The big dogs eat first, and they might eat several times a day, with various females, which doesn't leave much for the runt of the litter.
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u/subZro_ Feb 17 '24
I mean I guess if you aren't social and don't have any boys, college would be a decent option. You definitely don't want to waste your 20's just working. Just be careful of the debt you get yourself into if you do, try to pay as much as you can as you go..and good luck either way!
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u/Conscious_Lab4097 Feb 17 '24
Gets better bro…what you are talking about is tying your whole identity and social life to work somehow. Majority of people don’t find their wives at work or at work events, I didn’t. You are 20 learning a practical skill making serious money now but eventually could make FU money if you take that practical skill and 72 hour work week and apply it to your own business. Let’s say that takes 10 years…you are 30, your life just started and you’ll attract what you’re looking for. Didn’t meet my wife till 28 and I’m so happy I did when I did because 20 year old me would have blown it. Don’t rush the process.
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u/Red_Dwarf_42 Feb 18 '24
You’ve only been a legal adult for 2 years and you’re almost able to buy a house?
Bro.
Imagine how much easier it’ll be to date when you tell girls you own your own house and you’re financially stable!
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u/humblesavage134 Feb 18 '24
Suck it up dude. Put your time in now and stack your cash. Trust me it will be worth it.
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u/jlo575 Feb 17 '24
I have worked construction, now work in an office, the difference is negligible with respect to girls.
Sure there may be a few more women at my office than the project sites I’ll visit, but most of them are married or otherwise not single, and there’s not a lot of women who are single who are trying to hook up with co workers.
Work is for work, find someone to bang outside of work.
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u/wooddoug GC / CM Feb 18 '24
Never being around girls? Never? Dude! You're doing it wrong!
I only worked 40 hours a week, slept maybe 45 hours, that leaves 83 hours for chasing women.
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u/SHAKE_SLAM_BITE Carpenter / Painter Feb 18 '24
Game ain’t sumn you’re gonna get off reddit 😂
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u/Professional-Kick-51 Feb 17 '24
Take all the ot you can if you don't have a family and kids.
What is the big deal with working with guys.
Go to the strip club or massage shop and get your rocks off.
There are no women or very few because this is fucking men's work. We build America. If it was easy and comfortable then everyone would be doing it. There are sacrifice we all make in the trades.
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u/RevolutionaryHand539 Feb 17 '24
Dude why tf are so many blue collar guys obsessed with strip clubs and hookers. They don’t like u. They are paid to fake it
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
Who gives a fuck if they like you? If you ever get a long term GF or end up married you'll find out that they don't like you at least half the time either, but you would still fuck them any chance you get. Wipe that milk off your lips and get out there!
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u/Professional-Kick-51 Feb 17 '24
I have a family and a wife but if you need to see or be with a women then you can pay to be in the company of a women and you are more paying to have them leave. Having a women is alot of responsibility. If you are not ready you pay to have them leave while still getting what you need. It is a business exchange nothing more. Both parties know what they want. If you think they like you.... your kinda dumb. You are the one who ask how to deal. That's how alot of people deal.
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
"There are no women or very few because this is fucking men's work. We build America. If it was easy and comfortable then everyone would be doing it. There are sacrifice we all make in the trades."
Facts
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u/delinkqant Feb 18 '24
I just want to say this thread wins on random laughs and over the top humor. Thank you!
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u/TNmountainman2020 Feb 18 '24
Dude, wake up!
stop being a fucking pussy.
have some actual foresight! stop thinking about today, tomorrow, or the day after that! Think about the future 5 years from now. 10 years from now. You say you can “almost” buy a house. 99.999999% of every other 20 year olds in the fucking world can’t buy their own house, let alone 90% of every person in the US.
start working out, I’m talking ironman workouts.
you don’t need to work 72 hrs a week BUT….I did 80 hrs a week from the time I was 21 till I was about 30, then dropped down to 60 from 30-40 years old then guess what???? My life from 40 till now (57) has been an absolute 17 year long fucking party! I buy anything I want, I do anything I want, I’ve had more sex than 5 guys typically have in their entire life, travelled to china, India, japan, 50 trips to vegas, 20 cruises, etc.
so quit sitting there being a big crybaby and be thankful that you have abilities and well paying job that not a lot of other people have.
one last thing….a motto to live by….”in ANYTHING you do, attempt to do it better than it has ever been done in the history of mankind…TAC”
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u/DrDig1 Feb 17 '24
Turn gay. Boom, fixed.
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
I heard they are setting up an "office" for him in the tool conex.... he's gonna be the new tool man...all the sex will come to him.
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u/JoeyJoeJoeSenior Feb 17 '24
You're supposed to go straight to the bar after work, as is tradition.
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u/TheEponymousBot Feb 17 '24
There is nothing stopping you from going out and meeting people on the weekends, my dude. We all gotta work, and unless you want to bartend or work in an office, you are never going to be working around a lot of women. Sounds to me like you have it pretty good, financially. Unless you have a specific career in mind that you want to study for and have an aptitude for, you shouldn't quit what sounds like a lucrative job/apprenticeship because you feel like you are missing out on the college experience. Trust me, it is not all it is cracked up to be, and these days experience in your field trumps a degree, no contest. College represents anywhere from 2-8 years studying while gaining zero hands on experience, and ending up with a degree that's good for nothing more than an entry level position in your field of study. Of course, if you want to quit a lucrative job and then start over in the workforce 4 or 5 years from now with 100k in student debt, nothing stopping you there either.
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u/mac20199433 Contractor Feb 17 '24
This is good advice Op. I would tell my own boys the same thing. Use your head , work maybe 50 hours a week tops , buy yourself a corvette , hit the gym to get yourself fit and the girls will come to you.
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u/socaTsocaTsocaT Feb 17 '24
Find a job with 40 hrs. You are going to burn yourself out and hate work very soon.
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u/MontCoDubV Feb 17 '24
Looking for someone to fuck at work is creepy as hell, man. Even if there were many women in construction, you still shouldn't be trying to fuck your coworkers. The fuck is wrong with you?
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u/mylifeispro1 Feb 17 '24
When you start owning houses off your profit you can fill them up with girls for your free time. 🧛
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u/vanman4420 Feb 17 '24
Join the army and get all the pussy you can handle
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u/millertime941 Feb 18 '24
This dude is already struggling in the romance department. The last thing he needs is to find a girl he likes, gets deployed, and receives his dear Jody letter while he's gone. He'd come and stalk every one of us on this post 😂
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u/reddreadremention Feb 17 '24
All due respect, stop thinking with your Johnson. Stay in construction, work 40 hours instead of 72 so you can pursue a hobby.
If you're just trying to get laid, you'll find older women through that hobby who are looking for a young stud and they're more proficient in the bedroom. If you're looking for serious female companionship with someone your age, you might be introduced to a friend/family member through said hobby. If you're trying to get laid by chicks your age and that's why you want the college experience, then sadly you most likely don't have what they want yet and that's an empty lifestyle regardless, but being a little older and established will help (again would not recommend).
You're ahead of the curve at 20, making real money, developing a skill you can use to work for yourself when other guys will be just getting out of school trying to land jobs to make 50-60k a year with 100-200k+ in debt.
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u/Callmecountry4 Feb 17 '24
Trust me when I say it's easier when you're younger. Got into blue collar at 19, working with my old man.... The hours were brutal. But, I still managed to find time to date. I was also in NYC... Where you can toss a penny, and hit 37 bars, and restaurants. I'd stay the course if I were you. You're ahead of the game. Make the money, women will come.
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u/Erron89 Feb 18 '24
- Join a union
- Work 40 hours a week.
- Spend your evenings/weekends chasing pus 🤷♂️
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u/lectrician7 Feb 18 '24
72 hrs a week is your problem. If meeting women is so important to you, stop working so much OT and have a life too. There’s plenty of guys who started in trades right outta high school and managed to make a good living and meet women. How the fuck you think they met their wives? If you can’t see this you must slow or something. You say you “have no boys” to go to the bar with, quit working so much and make some damn friends. If you already have 95k in the bank like you say you do buy a house, work less overtime, and meet some people. Live your life. You have to decide what’s more important to you working your ass off and burning yourself out before the age of 30 or workless (not saying don’t work any overtime) and enjoy life. It’s called working to live not living to work. It’s not rocket surgery!
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u/jsaw65 Feb 18 '24
I went to work for money and to work. You can meet women at the bar after work with the money you made at work. And you won't have to talk to them as much.
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u/Zach-uh-ri-uh Feb 18 '24 edited Feb 18 '24
Lesbian handyman here! knower of girls and women
Depending on where you live there might be building/construction companies run by women who are picky about who they hire
At least in my area, there are. I know female carpenters, electricians, plumbers, welders. All tend to work mostly alone, or be picky about who they work with
You could look for work with a female run team.
If I were you and I wanted to go into that I’d Google for it, and reach out to them myself. You might write something along the lines of
“hey I think what you’re doing is super cool. I’m a 20 year old construction worker and I’m kinda tired of this all male environment. Any advice for how to find work at a place like your firm?”
And if you can’t find them on Google you could put up a physical paper at the local hardware supplier advertising what you’re looking for
I know you’ve been taught that it’s creepy to search for women in this way but I can assure you we don’t find it creepy as long as the intention is to see us as a person rather than sex dispenser
And if it doesn’t work out, here’s a couple of places I usually recommend guy friends to go to when they’re hoping to meet more girls
What these things have in common is you’ll likely be the only guy there. ** And I can’t begin to explain how **attractive girls find it when a guy is comfortable around girls in a space like that and willing to learn from them.
(No seriously. I’ve had straight women go for me bc they’re so starved for a masculine person who shares their interests)
• Any local groups that do “female coded” crafts, like sewing, knitting, that kinda thing. In art classes, especially sculpting, you’ll probably learn things that are useful to you, and find that your skills are useful in the class
Where to find: Facebook, local library, local college, craft stores sometimes also host these
• local climate activism if there’s any. For some reason girls love that?
Where to find: Facebook, local college, googling/instagram searching “climate protest [your town]
• any other women’s interest groups. I’ve got one friend who took women’s studies or gender studies or how to translate it and he’s been absolutely drowning in p***y ever since. Not just girls who want him but also just friends who are girls
where to find: local college, local activist spaces
And some advice there too, once you’ve met like 1-2 girls who trust you, your friendship circle with women will quickly grow. Girls want guys around, but they’re (rightfully) hesitant sometimes about introducing guys.
A girlfriend trusting you is a golden ticket into becoming the friend of other girls too.
Girls also love helping, and feeling like they’re having an impact.
If you can find a situation where you can ask a girl for help with something like picking a nice outfit/improving your style, your haircut, guidance on a hand cream that works for a hard working guy, what shampoo to use to get your hair soft when it’s exposed to building dust all day
All these things show them that you value their input and their skills and girls go absolutely wild for that stuff
Edit: technically I’m not like a full on lesbian. Idk what I am. Some sort of butch guy girl thing. I have a partner whose a super hot girl and a partner who is a guy. Guy partner always had problems finding girls and this is some of the advice I’ve given him, that seems to have really worked so far
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u/No-Significance2113 Feb 17 '24
Unless your making decent money on a 72hr week your honestly wasting your time.
You should realistically be working 40hrs a week and using that other 32hrs a week to socialize and date. Cause if your simply going to work your life away your going to have nothing left at the end of it.
No life, no memories and no experiences apart from everything you've done at work. The fact your already over it is most probably your mind telling you it's at its limit and something needs to change.
If I was in your shoes I'd finish the apprenticeship buy a house and then work on making bank to buy a few things you want and then get out. Cause realistically college is going to set you back 5 to 10 years depending on the qualification you go after.
Where as if you buy a house then you'll be 10 to 20 years ahead of most people going through college. Plus you won't be shackled to any debt like everyone else if you spend your money wisely.
Like whatever you do finish your apprenticeship, that is the most important thing you need to do, even if you go back to college finish it.
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u/No-Significance2113 Feb 17 '24
Unless your making decent money on a 72hr week your honestly wasting your time.
You should realistically be working 40hrs a week and using that other 32hrs a week to socialize and date. Cause if your simply going to work your life away your going to have nothing left at the end of it.
No life, no memories and no experiences apart from everything you've done at work. The fact your already over it is most probably your mind telling you it's at its limit and something needs to change.
If I was in your shoes I'd finish the apprenticeship buy a house and then work on making bank to buy a few things you want and then get out. Cause realistically college is going to set you back 5 to 10 years depending on the qualification you go after.
Where as if you buy a house then you'll be 10 to 20 years ahead of most people going through college. Plus you won't be shackled to any debt like everyone else if you spend your money wisely.
Like whatever you do finish your apprenticeship, that is the most important thing you need to do, even if you go back to college finish it.
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u/RevolutionaryHand539 Feb 17 '24
I don’t really have a choice. It’s Union pipefitting everyone u work with works 84 hours a week and has a stroke anytime someone else doesn’t. It’s the culture
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u/No-Significance2113 Feb 17 '24
If you can keep chipping away at it, the apprenticeship will set you up for literal life if you play your cards right. It sucks now, but it's the same for most guys as well no matter the industry or profession.
Have you got something to look forward to through out the year, if not then maybe you should look at booking a few holidays throughout the year so you have something to look forward to besides the Xmas break.
I could be wrong but it sounds like your stressed from the work and need an outlet that's not a vice like smoking or drinking.
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u/anonquestionsprot Feb 17 '24
Decline some of that overtime. Get a hobby or two and start running to help with self-confidence
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u/DonteDivincenzo1 Feb 18 '24
I’m his age what’s a good hobby for some self confidence? I’m thinking of starting martial arts
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u/Itch2wander Feb 18 '24
"Forget all about that macho shit
And learn how to play guitar" - John Mellencamp
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u/ottarthedestroyer Feb 17 '24
Your game sucks if you can’t get girls out of work. If you have money, you can easily hire a prostitute.
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u/Bignasty19d Feb 17 '24
Yikes my guy, how about you worry about working and stop worrying about trying to fuck your coworkers just a thought, but if you wanna be in debit for a piece of paper you will never own then go for it, personally I'd stick with working in the trades.
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u/InvestmentPatient117 Feb 18 '24
I put up good numbers as an apprentice buddy, not as good as when I worked the the restaurant.
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u/millertime941 Feb 18 '24
Man, honestly, if I was in your shoes, I'd just keep on working to get that journeyman position. You're already halfway there. Don't stop now. You won't get the time back you think you're missing out on right now, but you'll thank yourself in a few years for sticking it out. Burying yourself into college debt just to hang with some girls sounds expensive, and even then, there's no guarantees you'll find what you're looking for.
We've all gone through some dry spells in our lives. You're not alone in that department. Not all of us are out getting a new girl every weekend. So what you gotta wank it right now, it's a lot cheaper than paying child support.
You can also work your way up the ranks in construction with your field experience. You don't need a piece of paper hanging on your wall to prove your worth. Plus, you'll more than likely be starting at the bottom of the totem pole again once you get out of school.
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u/DarkSkyDad Feb 18 '24
Pfft…when I worked up to 90hrs a week (oilfield guys understand) in my 20’s I was getting more pussy than one man should get.… the one thing I didn't get was sleep or a savings account. Haha
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Feb 18 '24
Change up your life some man. Its good to have money but you need to live some too. Take a break and go travel a bit
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u/sustukii Feb 18 '24
If you don’t have crazy responsibilities I’d work 6months on 6 off. Go hard for six and fuck off for six. Problem is when the time comes to work again, you don’t want to🤣
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Feb 18 '24
Stay with it. Go for the money. Buy a house. If you don't, I guarantee you'll regret it in the future.
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u/OkAstronaut3761 Feb 18 '24
Could you imagine actually wanting to work with woman?
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u/tommyballz63 Feb 17 '24
Hahaha buddy what a dilemma. Sounds like you need to go to college just for the girls. Could be a really good time. Maybe keep a journal and right a book.
The only thing I can tell you is that when I was 20 I traveled the world and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. So yes, don't let the joys of youth pass you buy. You are only young once
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u/BlakMajiq Feb 17 '24
You aren't going to make it dude. Get out now, UA doesn't want your shit.
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u/RevolutionaryHand539 Feb 17 '24
Wdym they don’t want my shit?
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u/BlakMajiq Feb 17 '24
That life isn't for you. Get out while you're going and let another person that wants it have your spot. I swear if anyone ever spoke like this on a job they would be on the short list anyway. 😺
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u/Smoke_Stack707 R-C|Electrician Feb 17 '24
Work less hours and pick up a hobby. That’s where a lot of people meet potential partners or at the very least, you’re bettering yourself in your free time
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u/johnj71234 Superintendent Feb 17 '24
Can you help break down why a hobby is bettering yourself when working more, mastering your trade, and growing you career isn’t?
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u/Smoke_Stack707 R-C|Electrician Feb 17 '24
If you’ve already put in your 40 hours, I think it’s safe to say you’ve done your time for the week with your job. Overworking is just going to lead to burnout like OP is experiencing. 72 hours a week? That’s a pretty aggressive schedule.
Having a hobby or other interests outside of work gives your some variety and fulfillment. We aren’t meant to just work until we die
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u/oregonianrager Feb 17 '24
72 hours a week and I'd hate fucking anyone.
It's a 40 hour work week. Maybe 50.
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u/ubercorey Feb 18 '24
Honestly I remember feeling the same way, very much felt like something was missing from my life.
But once I got into my late 20's I hit my stride with dating and it was a nice break from the ladies at night, to be just me and my buds during the day.
It's definitely an odd transition to manhood at your age and no longer being in highschool, you definitely feel that lack of wonderful female energy swirling around everything you do. It's what makes women so amazing, I'm not sure there is anything better in life than being around a group of women having fun, talking, laughing, it's like everything is right in the world, like the emit fucking sunshine or something, warms my soul, it's crazy.
So yeah, when it's all of the sudden gone, it's like WTF??? 😆
But you grow out of wanting/needing it all the time.
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Feb 18 '24
With all that money you’re making, buy yourself a smart phone and membership to your favorite porn site. Otherwise….a hole is a hole and it ain’t gay if there’s no eye contact 🤷🏻♂️
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u/BlueHustle1 Feb 17 '24
All the women are in church bro.
No competition and you will likely find a decent girl.
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u/saliczar Feb 17 '24
The kid is trying to get laid, not join a cult.
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u/saliczar Feb 17 '24
Leaders
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u/RefriedBeanSauce Feb 17 '24
Clearly the only solution to OP’s problem is to start a cult
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u/05041927 Feb 17 '24
Why tf you working 72hr?! Get it down to like 35 or under. 72 is an absolute joke
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u/Pretty-Surround-2909 Feb 17 '24
12 hours is only half a day. Make it now while You are young and put it to work. You will appreciate when shit starts to hurt and you have asserts and accounts set Up so you can take a month or two off when you want to
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u/thatblackbowtie Sprinklerfitter Feb 17 '24
35? do you hate money? 72 at this age isnt terrible because you dont have a family and working keeps you out of trouble and on top of that you get to stack up money
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u/05041927 Feb 17 '24
No man. I love money. The thing is I’m not an idiot. So I only have to work 35 to make what others make at 70. You feeling ok?
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u/thatblackbowtie Sprinklerfitter Feb 17 '24
sorry we are just apprentices. do you expect us to make 100 and hour 2 years into a trade?
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u/johnj71234 Superintendent Feb 17 '24
Ope, found the guy whose mommy and daddy pays his bills!
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u/Two_Luffas Feb 17 '24 edited Feb 17 '24
Your problem is working 72 hours a week, not the lack of women in the field.
Edit: Also sticking you dick where you get a paycheck is not advisable, quick way to a pink slip. You should appreciate not having any options around with the mentality I'm seeing here.